The recently announced Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety will bring into the stark light of day the systemic failures by parts of the sector to provide some of our most vulnerable citizens with even the most basic level of adequate care. Read More

Dr Dianne Heriot, the head of the parliamentary library, is adamant that she independently decided to revise a blog post about how law enforcement agencies could access My Health Record data following complaints from Health. Read More

The office of the National Health Funding Pool Administrator has been in a holding pattern, unable to publish its reports and with nobody acting in the role, since Peter Achterstraat completed his term of appointment at the end of March. Read More

Private patients are increasingly using their health insurance to get early access to high-demand hospital treatments in public hospitals – forgoing long waiting times and queue jumping public patients. Read More

Betters ways to receive early warning of health deterioration before a transfer to intensive care occurs are urgently needed. Good technology in other wards goes a long way to meeting that challenge. Read More

At Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, whose collaboration with Philips spans 30-plus years, the introduction of new technology in hospitals plays a valuable role in attracting talent and creating an environment where technology motivates and drives people to learn and grow. Read More

This week's aged care reform continues the tradition of federal governments tinkering at the edges of the heavily regulated and mostly taxpayer-funded sector, but putting off a major overhaul of its old-fashioned funding model. Read More

The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has gone through an independent privacy impact assessment, and the six big agencies involved have agreed to 14 recommendations for improvement. Read More

The culture of how people in government come together is shifting fast as intelligent technology empowers productivity and interactions that produce actions and outcomes. That’s a good thing. Read More

The Department of Health breached the Privacy Act by publishing open data, according to a ruling made last week by former information and privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, a day before his retirement. Read More

The federal government is clearly sold on big data and is combining massive stores of sensitive public information. It needs to bring the public along but while privacy concerns abound, there's little sign that many Australians share the enthusiasm. Read More